Richard van der Riet Woolley quotes
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“The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.”
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“Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.”
-- Richard van der Riet Woolley
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“Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719
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“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”
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